Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-13
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the Trac, Republican.
The Il ce county fair viii be held at North.
field, September 6 and Z.
John Thoreson, Of South Center, has keen
committed to Jail on charge Of oastardy.
Several elevators in southern Minnesota
are TO be closed on account OF poor crops.
Peter Becknan, q middle aged farmer OF
Litchdell, cut his throat on Monda, ard died
Tuesday.
George X. Shaw, formerly Of the st. Paul
Dispatch, Is to start q new daily paper In
Minneapolis.
William Burx's general merchandise store
~ High Forest was broken into, safe blown
open and 800 stolen.
Austin VIII expend $4,000 this yea: In
bridges. The settlement with the treasurer
showed $27, COO in the treasury.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bloods, OF Luke City, died
from injuries received In being thrown from
q buggy, living only an hour afterward.
President Hill, Of the Manitoba, has con-
t-sctsa .oi sTsiSc steel boats to ply from Du-
lutb 70 Buffalo with the grain Of the Mani
toba. They will cost 81, 500, 900.
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dent In politics, Is 10 be started Ia st. Paul
by Messrs Richardson, OF Chicago, ami Pain
ter, formerly Of the Kansas City News.
John Wagner, Of Douglas, charged with In.
cest with his sixteen .year-old daughter,
pleaded guilty and WAS sentenced Monday by
Judge Crosby to two years In state prison at
hard labor.
Mrs. Peterson, wife Of John Peterson, liz
Inc a few miles from Fisher, was engaged in
haying Wednesday, when the horse ran away
and dragged her undcr a barbed wire fence.
Her face aud body vas horribly mangled. The
nesh OF the left arm was stripped fr, m the
shoulder 10 the wrist, leaving the bare bone.
The arm was amputatod at the shoulder.
Duluth special: Work viii be commenced
in a few weeks at Tive Harbors on the extern
sion OF the Minnesota Iron company's ore
DOCKS, which are to be heightened 500 feet.
The Duluth and Iron Range railroad has re-
ceived seven new locomotives and a large
number OF ore, freight and passenger cars.
The petrifed remains Of Edward Lietis, who
was drowned thirty years ago at Little Falls,
were found Thursday. Workmen digging a
canal for the Little Falls Water Power com.
pany found the body several feet below the
surface OF the ground where 1t had been bur-
led. A gold ring was found upon the finger.
Mrs. Leitis died In an insane asylum In Can
sds. SO says a special dispatch.
Walter Stead and II. n. Hirst, residents of
st. Cloud, started Saturday for England.
They are IN possession Ct a long and compre-
hensive proposition for the locatio of an ex-
tensive WOODEN mill at that point, which they
viii present TO several Of the leading wooden
mill proprietors In England. Ia connection
with II is an offer granting to the suitable
parties a bonus OF n large new three-story
brick building, which has q capacity Of over
one hundred hands.
Chatfeli special. July %: $. NJ. Justine,
White Earth indians around Pillager and
Motley have been running things on their
own hook lately. Reports reached Braincrd
Wednesday that IN attack was made upon
Mrs. Frank Tilden y couple Of days ago. She
was struck on the head by a squaw and as.
saulted bya buck. She called the dogs who
drove the Indians off. People at Motley and
Ptiager are taking steps to protect them
selves against further trouble. Leech Lake
Indians have shown no hostility.
Duluth special: A leading iron man who
has just come 10 from a long tour Of the
regions west Of Tower, states that the amount
OF iron to be found on the borders Of st.
Louis and Itasca equities is something i'm
mense. He has explored towns 81 and 50,
ranges 81 and % west, almost directly south
west from Tower, and finds veins cropping
out in many places east OF Sandy Lake and
through the swamps stretching nearly to the
face coming ont at the Tower mines. West
Of range % It again goes below.
A serious accident occurred last week at the
ruins Of the ST. Anthony elevator, in the cas-
tern suburbs OF Minneapolis. The elevator
burned July 10, and since then a large force
OF men has been employed removing hedsm-
aged wheat. Wednesd y morning at S O'Clock,
twelve men were engaged In shoveling away
grain from the south wall Of the elevator
when, without warning, the wall yielded to
the outward pressure ard the great stone
structure fell upon the men, crushing and
mangling them almost beyond recognition.
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AIdorson, Thomas Dempsey Edward Markcy
and John Johnson had been taken from the
q Iris ard another so far unidentified. A.
Erickson, while yet alive, was removed TO bis
home in South Minneapolis. S-arch is being
made for bodies OF other labortrs.
A large number OF Indians, a fusion OF the
Chippewa. Winnebago and Pillsger tribes,
are camped near K'moall, engaged IN picking
berries. A very pretty yourg fanaw was
married some weeks ago to an old Indian
who had a young son living. Two young
Indians from one Of the o her tribes reused
the ire Of the old husband by undue intimacy
with the young wife. The jealous party
sought the invaders OF hts tepee's happiness
and sent one to glory by the shotgun route
and frightened the other off. This happened
Friday afternoon, and early Saturday morn.
ing the surviving Lothario encountered the
old man and son, killing the young man and
seriously wouuding the old man. This little
domestic difficulty has caused a division OF
opinion In the camp, and threats OF Wholesale
slaughter are made by both factions.
Rochester will have a trotting meeting on
the 6tt, 9TH, Sth and 9th Of September. The
opening days sport will consist OF the 2:35
trotttng class, purse 1900, and g. half mile and